Ok girls, I've got a question for you. I need to know if I'm being a weenie or not. As you all prolly know I'm traning for an Ironman which means monster miles on the weekends. I'm training alone, so I've been staying up in my relatively traffic free neighborhood doing multiple loops. The same old loop is getting really old. It's a 10 mile loop, but I found last weekend after the 4th loop I was mentally fried. I tried changing up directions and adding side streets, but I barely made 72 miles before I wanted to shoot myself.

Well if I ride down the back side of my hill I get into a farming community that alot of clubs use for their weekend rides. I've never ventured down there myself for a couple of reasons. First there is really no shoulder AT ALL for at least the first 6 miles. Then it opens up to nice flat road with a small shoulder for the next ten miles. Now there are just a few farms out there and really no traffic but I'm kind of afraid to ride out there because of the lack of shoulder. I'm just afraid that some whacko is going to come by and clip me. Also the area is pretty much farmland and bare desert so it's pretty isolated.
It would be a nice relatively flat, virtually traffic free ride I suppose, but I'm just caught up w/ the "what ifs". The area also houses alot of immigrant laborers who probably got their drivers license in another country. I'm not trying to offend anyone, but I've been the unfortunate victim in my car more than once to their sub par driving skills. So being on a bike kind of freaks me out.
But like I said, I hear the local clubs ride out there alot, so maybe I'm just being a weenie?
Whadya think girls? Am I being a weenie? It sure would be nice to change my scenery!